Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$69,704
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$16,826
19.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$66,167
New Hampshire costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New Hampshire — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$86,530
Kept after tax
$69,704
Worth in national money
$66,167
State rank
34
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in New Hampshire. The middle earner gets $86,530. That is 34 of 49 states, and about 14.42% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Within New Hampshire this is well-paid work. Of 488 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 100 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $86,530 the take-home is $69,704; in national-average money that behaves like $66,167. The average comes to $98,420, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For social scientists and related workers, all other, New Hampshire sits in the lower band at $86,530, ranking 34 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 14.42%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Ranked against every occupation New Hampshire publishes a median for, social scientists and related workers, all other sits 100 of 488 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Take-home for social scientists and related workers, all other in New Hampshire, on $86,530, is $69,704; deflated by the state's price level, $66,167. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $98,420 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $65,900 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $86,530 |
| Top tenth earn over | $158,750 |
| This salary | $86,530 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in New Hampshire | $69,704 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $69,704 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,563 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $86,530 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,684 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of social scientists and related workers, all other in New Hampshire earn under $86,530 and half over. The published range runs $65,900 at the tenth percentile to $158,750 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $69,704 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $86,530. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 100 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $66,167 uses one figure for the whole of New Hampshire. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 488 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 100.
- Figures are distribution medians for social scientists and related workers, all other in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $65,900 to $158,750; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $69,704, from $86,530, assumes a single New Hampshire filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 100 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 34 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $66,167, worked from $86,530, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular New Hampshire address, on work sitting at 100 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $98,420 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $65,900 and the top tenth $158,750 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $66,167 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $69,704 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in New Hampshire is $98,420. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($65,900) and the ninetieth ($158,750) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New Hampshire's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $66,167 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
New Hampshire levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $69,704 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.